Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin feared dead after Russia plane crash

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Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin feared dead after Russia plane crash
bbc.co.uk

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia's civil aviation authority has said.

Earlier, Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defences in the Tver region, north of Moscow.

The jet, which was flying from Moscow to St Petersburg, was carrying seven passengers and three crew.

Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against the Russian armed forces in June.

Grey Zone said local residents heard two bangs before the crash and saw two vapour trails.

Tass news agency said the plane caught fire on hitting the ground, adding that four bodies had already been found.

The aircraft had been in the air for less than half an hour, it said.

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feared dead

LMAO. What? Y'all mean "hoped dead"?

Damn, who had “shot down in a plane”? I had poisoning

I thought he'd just go missing one day and never found

I mean... isn't that what just happened? Until we see a body, he could have faked his death, or he could be in the basement of the gulag with everyone thinking he's dead.

or he could be in the basement of the gulag with everyone thinking he's dead.

Soo basically "dead with extra steps"? "Dead to all intents and purposes"?

Sad...

My money was on defenestration.

Becomes first person known to Russia who fell out of an airplane window at 28,000 feet.

Also wouldn't shock me if he put his name on the passenger list and had it destroyed himself to fake his death.

He has to know he had/has a target on his back

Who’s fearing this? I’m curious.

I dunno, but I’m waiting for him to stay dead and then I might do a little jig.

Yes. I can be like that. And yes, he was thst awful a human.